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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
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