No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. (Thomas Jefferson)

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only.

Thomas Jefferson

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