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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? – John Adams

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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