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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is read more
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If read more
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
He loved politicians - even Republicans.
He loved politicians - even Republicans.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in read more
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
