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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 331 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Constitution of the United States |
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