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The Jeffersonian cyclopedia;

a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.;
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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3456. GEORGE III., Unfit to rule.—

A prince whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit
to be the ruler of a people who mean to be


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free. Future ages will scarcely believe that
the hardiness of one man adventured within
the short compass of twelve years only, to lay
a foundation, so broad and undisguised for
tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in
principles of freedom. [218]
Declaration of Independence as Drawn by Jefferson.

 
[218]

The first sentence was changed so as to read, “A
prince whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of
a free people”, and the second one was struck out.——Editor.