“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”

Letter to John Pitts (21 January 1776) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/3sdms10.txt

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American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political p… 1722–1803

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