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— Thomas Jefferson"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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