Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. – Proverb

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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. – Anita Hill

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The greatness of a mans power is the measure of his surrender. – William Booth

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The most important influence in my childhood was my father. – DeForest Kelley

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