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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished

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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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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