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“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:
1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from
them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves
with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the
most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public
interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where
they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call
them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and
Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by
whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same
object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing
the essence of all.” – Thomas
Jefferson (Letter to Henry Lee, 1824)
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