Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is f…

Thomas Jefferson
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.
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