Thomas Jefferson
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I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.466

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