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"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
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"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
"It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
"Development has to be achieved collectively and it has to be quick paced and inclusive."
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
"The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state machinery and the excised phrase 'in humble submission to almighty God' - but because it no longer places THEM in a position to claim that THEY represent the will of that 'God' and to act as though it were true."
"The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."
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"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."
"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."
"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
"Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State."
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."
"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."
"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."
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