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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
         

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.


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