In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the c — Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the c — Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the c — Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the c — Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the c — Thomas Jefferson
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

— Thomas Jefferson
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