"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
-John Adams
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.“
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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