While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it … - Thomas Jefferson

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Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

Thomas Jefferson

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

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