Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. (Thomas Jefferson)

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

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