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Say's Phoebe - San Antonio NM, April 15, 2010

"everyone takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution and the circumstances in which he is placed..."

To me then it appears that there have been differences of opinion, and party differences, from the establishment of governments to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our country, that these will continue through all future times: that everyone takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution and the circumstances in which he is placed...

Thomas Jefferson, 1812, in a letter to John Adams

clipped December 21, 2004

Collectanea: American History - Politics and World Affairs