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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness beg

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men. – London Spectator

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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – William J. Clinton

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