The dead should not rule the living

Thomas Jefferson
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The dead should not rule the living
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Poli … ▶
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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the … ▶
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