Thomas Jefferson's Quote - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of governmen

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of governmen

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

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