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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 republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson

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