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Every Government Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
- In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,…
- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
- A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should…
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- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson
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- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
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- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
- In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson
- It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
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