Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. – Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt