Power is not alluring to pure minds. — Quoted

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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”

Thomas Jefferson · Power

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Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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