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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. we cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
-Thomas Jefferson
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We Have Counted The Cost Of This

Thomas Jefferson
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. we cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
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