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If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, July 1, 1776, to William Fleming. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, pp. 412-413, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).

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