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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

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It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891

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The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks. – Fred Beck

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