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John Kenneth Galbraith

"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."

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"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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John Kenneth Galbraith
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

Art

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"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."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

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John Kenneth Galbraith
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."

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