Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government th…

Thomas Jefferson
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.235, Cambridge University Press
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