Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
331
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
QUOTATION:
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS JEFFERSON, from the fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 305 (1896).