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Honesty in government

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 20, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Thomas Jefferson

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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