Thomas Jefferson Quote

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.


Jefferson: Magnificent Populist (ed. Robert B Luce, 1981)


No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings ...

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings ...

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings ...

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings ...