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Themselves Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough…
- We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind…
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