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- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Hannah More
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon
- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon
- Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A. Newhouse
- Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
- William Proxmire
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