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2024-04-21 16:22:10

Filipe Martinho on Nostr: [Thomas Jefferson, in the early 1800s] "described the governments of Europe, which he ...

[Thomas Jefferson, in the early 1800s] "described the governments of Europe, which he saw at first hand as the American ambassador to France. Under the pretense of government, he said, they had divided their nations into two classes: wolves and sheep. Jefferson taught that every government degenerates when it is left to the rulers alone, because rulers—by the very act of ruling—misuse the public trust. The people themselves, he said, are the only prudent repository of power."

In Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted world" (1996)
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