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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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Personal Development
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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Personal Development
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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Personal Development
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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Personal Development
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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Personal Development
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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Personal Development
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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Personal Development
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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Personal Development
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Wisdom
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
People
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
Virtue
"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
Politics
"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."
Economy
"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books."
Power
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
Money
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
Meeting
"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."
Humor
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