Indeed I tremble for my...
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, and exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
Thomas Jefferson
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Added on: July 7, 2007
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Jefferson reflecting on the hypocrisy of a young America permitting slavery in 1787.
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