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Richard Henry Lee

[T]o say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794), letter to Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813), Governor of Virginia, October 16, 1787.

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