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Competent Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
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