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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.: William J. H. Boetcker, 1916 (often attributed to Lincoln)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The first condition of immortality is death.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Letter (1769)
In charity there is no excess.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
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