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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial centers on principles associated with Thomas Jefferson: hostility to tyranny over the mind, the freedom of conscience and religion, a common code of morality, human equality and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the right of colonies to be free and independent states, the need for laws and institutions to advance with the progress of the human mind, the belief that liberty is a gift of God, condemnation of slavery as despotism and confidence that enslaved people are to be free, and the duty of the state to establish a general plan for educating the common people; its cornerstone was laid in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States of America.
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