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This foundation would have the advantage of being independent of war, which may suspend other improvements by requiring for its own purposes the resources destined for them.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Jefferson believes that certain improvements should be independent of war-related funding needs.

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