An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his f…

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.185
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