Thomas Jefferson about people (“Notes on the State of Virginia”, 1785) - Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.
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“ Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. ”
 Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). copy citation

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Thomas Jefferson about people (“Notes on the State of Virginia”, 1785) - Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson about people (“Notes on the State of Virginia”, 1785) - Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.