"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information."
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.
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