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• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1799...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 146...