Power is not alluring to pure minds

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Power is not alluring to pure minds

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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