History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to…

Thomas Jefferson
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.
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