No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

— Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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