Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the peo

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. – Thomas Jefferson

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Alone Im nothing. – Robert Plant

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I used to wonder if it was Gods plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. – Lana Del Rey

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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. – Rene Descartes

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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