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==Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)==
==Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)==
* Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
* If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
** Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
* Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
** Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)
* I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
** Letter to William Charles Jarvis, (28 September 1820).
==Simon Bolivar (1783–1830)==
==Simon Bolivar (1783–1830)==