"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
— Tyranny

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush (September 23, 1800); in Andrew A. Lipscomb, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1903), vol. 10, p. 175. Carved at the base of the dome, interior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.