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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. - Tho

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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