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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson
Encouragement, Difficult And Easy, Political
Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 2 Apr. 1790
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.