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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
"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."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"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."
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
"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."
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