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The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny] are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that ... they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes. --Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 1779
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:31:30 +0000

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