Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own …

Thomas Jefferson
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2017). LETTERS, p.709, 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
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