It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep …

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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.246
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