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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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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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Society
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Thomas Jefferson
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There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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Thomas Jefferson
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves. – Chaucer

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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. – Horace

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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. – Kahlil Gibran

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He who flees judgment confesses his guilt. – Anon.

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In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. – Joseph Cannon

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