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* "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe."<ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0490 Thomas Jefferson to Uriah Forrest], December 31st, 1787</ref>
 
* "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe."<ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0490 Thomas Jefferson to Uriah Forrest], December 31st, 1787</ref>
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*"No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion, nor can it be. The Christian religion is the best religion that's been given to man, and I, as chief magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example."<ref>Hutson, Religion, p. 96, quoting from a handwritten history in possession of the Library of Congress, “Washington Parish, Washington City,” by Rev. Ethan Allen.</ref>
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* "No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion, nor can it be. The Christian religion is the best religion that's been given to man, and I, as chief magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example."<ref>Hutson, Religion, p. 96, quoting from a handwritten history in possession of the Library of Congress, “Washington Parish, Washington City,” by Rev. Ethan Allen.</ref>
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* "On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was past." <ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-3562 From Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 12 June 1823]</ref>
    
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