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American History

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elleng

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Sun Sep 4, 2022, 11:42 PM Sep 2022

On this day September 4 in 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams about dictators [View all]

who prey upon the “ignorance and bigotry” of the people, turning them into instruments and convincing them “to defeat their own rights.”

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