Famous Quotes | A prince whose character is thus...

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. - Thomas Jefferson
Attribution: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. “Jefferson’s ‘original Rough draught’ of the Declaration of Independence” (1776). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 426, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).

Categories: King George III, President, Tyranny

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