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John Adams

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

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"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

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"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power."

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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

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"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

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"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

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"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

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"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

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"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
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"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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