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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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War
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Thomas Jefferson
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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power
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. – Albert Einstein

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde

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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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When you play, play hard when you work, dont play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when theres more reason to fear than to hope. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? – Gale Norton

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