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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

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Ich kenne keine sichere Aufbewahrung der letzten Mächte der Gesellschaft außer den Menschen selbst; und wenn wir denken, dass sie nicht erleuchtet genug sind, um ihre Kontrolle mit einem gesunden Ermessen auszuüben, besteht das Mittel darin, es ihnen nicht zu nehmen, sondern um ihr Ermessen zu informieren.

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