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If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the read more
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud read more
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
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.".
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
