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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. – Jon Meacham

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Faith
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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham

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Government
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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. – Jon Meacham

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power
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power
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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power

The law always limits every power it gives. – David Hume

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power

Everything is generated through your own will power. – Ray Bradbury

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power

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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power

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Because youre not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. – Madeleine LEngle

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A man is not finished when hes defeated; hes finished when he quits. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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Watergate

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cant see where it keeps its brain. – J. K. Rowling

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All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. – Blaise Pascal

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