I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but…

Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ✨ Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820
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