No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever y…

Thomas Jefferson
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No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). Jefferson, magnificent populist, Devin-Adair Pub
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