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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.


Thomas Jefferson

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RONALD REAGAN No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whi...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules...
VINOBA BHAVE Fellow citizens, the war is over,
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JOHN ADAMS Thomas Jefferson still survives.
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.
RICHARD DAWKINS We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worshi...
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WILLIAM BLACKSTONE I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
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JAMES MADISON Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved t...
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ROBERT DALLEK We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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DON POWELL The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
CARL BARZUN The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the ...
JOHN TYLER The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.
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DANA ROHRABACHER No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those t...
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M. J. ROSE An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
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RONALD REAGAN An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON SR. Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
CARL SAGAN Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his complime...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON