When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public …

Thomas Jefferson
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ✨ Remark to Baron von Humboldt, 1807, in Rayner 'Life of Jefferson' (1834) p. 356
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