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  • Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. - Thomas Jefferson
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