Political & Civic Leadership! Commonly misattributed
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
— Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President
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Listed by the Thomas Jefferson Monticello research staff among spurious quotations.
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