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Providing for their safety is the first object of a wise and free people
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- John Jay American statesman and jurist (1745 to 1829)
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their SAFETY seems to be the first.
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↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org
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