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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. read more
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have read more
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making read more
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small read more
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; read more
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed read more
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
