Thomas Jefferson Quote

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.


The papers of Thomas Jefferson (ed. 1950)


My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to ...

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to ...

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to ...

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to ...