No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well …

Thomas Jefferson
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2011). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, p.648, Princeton University Press
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