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Four Pillars of Our Prosperity

2012-04-30

Liberty Letters, Thomas Jefferson

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.


Source: Thomas Jefferson, First Annual Message, 8 December 1801.


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