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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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331 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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In questions of power, then, 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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ATTRIBUTION:
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, from the fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 305 (1896). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Constitution of the United States |
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