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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.
         



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