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The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
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