The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will for…

Thomas Jefferson
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The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.314
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