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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."
"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."
"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."
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