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6593. PEOPLE, Government and.—
Every
government degenerates when trusted to the
rulers of the people alone. The people
themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositaries.
And to render even them safe,
their minds must be improved to a certain
degree.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 390.
Ford ed., iii, 254.
(1782)
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