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- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
- Ludwig Mises
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941), (Supreme Court Justice) 1928
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
- Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
- Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
- Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
- A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
- Richard Armour
- If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- Rotarian
- The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
- Philip Caldwell
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