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Book cover for The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
But although the cliché says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said, but what is equally true, is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary: to hide ...more
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Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
Richard Nixon

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

Robert Penn Warren
“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)”
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Democracy has disappeared in several great nations, not because the people of those nations dislike democracy, but because they have grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership... finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Edward M. Kennedy
“For all those whose cares
have been our concern,
the work goes on,
the cause endures,
the hope still lives,
and the dream shall never die.”
Ted Kennedy

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