"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it." -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: Thoughts on Government, 1776
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" You see what power is -- holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!" -- Amy Tan (1952-) American author Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 387
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