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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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founding-fathers
government
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Thomas Jefferson |
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In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now.
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founding-fathers
patriotism
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Joseph J. Ellis |
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Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.
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founding-fathers
slavery-history
food-for-thought
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Howard Zinn |