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George Washington’s genius was not only in winning a war but in knowing how to stop fighting. He stepped away, twice, when holding on would have been easy. Only a handful of leaders in history have walked from absolute adoration and consolidated power into private life. That choice is the first mark on the yardstick we can still use to measure the health of modern governance. Power that can be laid down voluntarily is power most likely to serve the public rather than itself

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