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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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US Senator William Edgar Borah, writing in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (1929), p. 776; this has only rarely begun to be attributed to Washington, since about 2010.

 

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