Government

"The general [federal] government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures"

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source: Letter to George Washington, Philadelphia, May 23, 1792

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