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Political & Civic Leadership! Commonly misattributed
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President

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Thomas Jefferson
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! Commonly misattributed

Listed by the Thomas Jefferson Monticello research staff among spurious quotations.

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