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  • [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.115, Penguin
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