Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Words Of Wisdom

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
 --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820

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