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Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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Presidents Day
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Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. – Neville Chamberlain

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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. – Ayn Rand

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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