Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart

Philadelphia Dec. 23. 1791.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 22:435–7.
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Thomas Jefferson
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