"[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."

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The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

— Thomas Sowell