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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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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. – Louis Althusser

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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. – Charles R. Swindoll

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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