I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

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The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion. . . the costume without the brain.

Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Country, Government, Patriot, True

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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Gautama Buddha

Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.

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Siddharth Katragadda

Greatness is the reward for genius. . . only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.

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Peter Murphy

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Gene Simmons

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I. "

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Chris Christie

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

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