"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
"The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine."
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Source: Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.142, Hackett Publishing
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