"The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits."
— Thomas Jefferson

January 1, 1970

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Letter to M. L'Hommande, (1787), as quoted in The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900), edited by John P. Foley, p. 500