The main objects of all science, the freedom.... : Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“ The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.) ”

Thomas Jefferson
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