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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
         

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.


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