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“Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.”

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Brit Hume
Brit Hume

Brit Hume is an American journalist renowned for his career in television news. He has held several key positions at prominent news organizations, including Fox News Channel. Hume is praised for his in-depth analysis and commentary, and he has a wide-reaching influence in the political and news communities. more

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“We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
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“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson
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“Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
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“I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.”

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Book:Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers
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“The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings
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“A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson
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