The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. (Henry David Thoreau)

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

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