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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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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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