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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of po

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. – Booker T. Washington

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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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