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Depositories Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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- Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to… — Thomas Jefferson
- Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple
- The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each… — George Washington
- No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their… — Thomas Jefferson
- You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part… — Edmund Burke