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

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson

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Politics
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government
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power
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, ones power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. – Norman Vincent Peale

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power

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

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power

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. – Albert Einstein

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power

Voice of one, voice of none. – Italian Proverb

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power

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them. – A Harvey Block

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You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. – Charlie Sheen

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. – American Proverb

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