Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval) (1816)
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
![The mother principle [is] that 'governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.'.](https://img.libquotes.com/pic-quotes/v1/thomas-jefferson-quote-lbd0i4r.jpg)
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![The mother principle [is] that 'governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.'.](https://img.libquotes.com/pic-quotes/v3/thomas-jefferson-quote-lbd0i4r.jpg)
![The mother principle [is] that 'governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.'.](https://img.libquotes.com/pic-quotes/v4/thomas-jefferson-quote-lbd0i4r.jpg)
