Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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