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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. but as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... to attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. for what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?
-Thomas Jefferson
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A First Attempt To Recover The Right

Thomas Jefferson
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. but as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... to attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. for what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?
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