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[Quote No.33254] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no more truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indisoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...." - George Washington
U.S. President. First Inagural Address, April 30, 1789.
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[Quote No.33265] Need Area: Friends > General
"A civilization is built on what is required of men [and women], not on that which is provided for them. [When responsibilities are fulfilled then entitlements are earnt.]" - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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[Quote No.33283] Need Area: Friends > General
"Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you [judge the essence of others] by desires." - Manton
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[Quote No.33287] Need Area: Friends > General
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it." - Jean Rostand
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[Quote No.33308] Need Area: Friends > General
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts." - Sir Arthur Kent
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[Quote No.33313] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The current marketing and media-fanned fascination with and longing for celebrity and fame is pathetic.] Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity." - Ovid
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[Quote No.33320] Need Area: Friends > General
"The penalty good men [and women] pay for indifference to public affairs [including politics and business] is to be ruled [governed] by evil men [and women]." - Plato
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[Quote No.33322] Need Area: Friends > General
"Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men [and women] are [potentially] evil...[and take steps to protect against the abuse of constitutional power.]" - Sir Walter Raleigh
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[Quote No.33326] Need Area: Friends > General
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens
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[Quote No.33344] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power [government] than by violent and sudden usurpations. [i.e. This is the theory by which a live frog is less likely to fight being cooked in a pot if it is placed in cool water and then the temperature is slowly increased than if you were to just drop it into boiling water.]" - James Madison
(1751 – 1836), Fourth President of the United States of America. Quoted from his speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788.
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[Quote No.33357] Need Area: Friends > General
"Still one thing more, fellow citizens - a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circles of our felicities." - Thomas Jefferson
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801.
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[Quote No.33362] Need Area: Friends > General
"Success covers a multitude of blunders." - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.33365] Need Area: Friends > General
"The [only] essential role of government is to enforce private property rights and contract law." - Alan Gibbs
(1939 - ) New Zealand businessman, entrepreneur, and art patron; and one of New Zealand's wealthiest residents.
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[Quote No.33369] Need Area: Friends > General
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
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[Quote No.33372] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman philosopher. Quoted from his 'Epistles', published 1st Century A.D.
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[Quote No.33393] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the long course of history, having people who understand your [country's political] thought is much greater security than another submarine." - J. William Fulbright
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[Quote No.33395] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both." - Alice Stone Blackwell
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[Quote No.33403] Need Area: Friends > General
"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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[Quote No.33404] Need Area: Friends > General
"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good." - Norman Schwarzkopf
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[Quote No.33421] Need Area: Friends > General
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
1st President of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.33438] Need Area: Friends > General
"An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country." - Sir Henry Wotton
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[Quote No.33439] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man is a clever animal who [often] behaves like an imbecile." - Albert Schweitzer
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[Quote No.33442] Need Area: Friends > General
"Conquest is not our interest, much less to consume our people and treasure in conquering for others." - Andrew Fletcher
A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias, 1698.
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[Quote No.33454] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln
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[Quote No.33473] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is a great wonder that to teach such a simple truth [that if you want to get along with others all you have to do is to treat others as you would want to be treated in the same situation] a number of religions should be necessary, and so many disputes should go on between them as to which is the God-ordained teaching. [Of course, there are many other questions religions try to answer, for example, why are we here, how did we get here, what happens when we die, etc, and the different cultural and historical answers to these result in the many different religions.]" - Sri Ramana Maharshi
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[Quote No.33478] Need Area: Friends > General
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." - Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997), Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary.
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[Quote No.33479] Need Area: Friends > General
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." - Aesop
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[Quote No.33480] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politicians choose to do what keeps them in office and not necessarily what is best for the long-term health of the country." - George Soros
One of the richest men in the world
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[Quote No.33487] Need Area: Friends > General
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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[Quote No.33489] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished." - Bible
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[Quote No.33490] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections [before as each side tries to persuade enough people to become the majority and thereby win the vote and then after for the minority that lost]." - Meg Greenfield
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[Quote No.33491] Need Area: Friends > General
"If there is a sin superior to every other it is that of willful and offensive war. Most other sins are circumscribed within narrow limits, that is, the power of one man cannot give them a very general extension, and many kind of sins have only a mental existence from which no infection arises; but he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of Hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." - Thomas Paine
'The American Crisis V', March 21, 1778.
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[Quote No.33495] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us." - William Feather
(1888 - 1919), American writer and businessman.
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[Quote No.33517] Need Area: Friends > General
"Classical liberals, whose modern counterparts are libertarians and small-government conservatives, believed that the state's duties should be limited (1) to provide for the national defense; (2) to protect persons and property against force and fraud; and (3) to provide public goods that markets cannot." - Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
Former vice president at Citigroup and a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Quote from an article in 'The Wall Street Journal' on April 20, 2010.
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[Quote No.33521] Need Area: Friends > General
"The earliest known written appearance of the word 'freedom' (amagi), or 'liberty' was found on a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash. [It is no coincidence that the word for freedom - amagi - and the prefix imagi of the word imagi-natives are similar.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.33524] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes." - P. J. O'Rourke
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[Quote No.33543] Need Area: Friends > General
"A great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It had its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all parts of a civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their laws; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine, society performs for itself almost every thing which is ascribed to government." - Thomas Paine
(1791 - 1792), from his book, 'The Rights of Man'.
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[Quote No.33545] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country [... in particular, what you can do for yourself - thereby reducing your burden to society, rather than, like a spoilt child, demand that society owes you a good living without effort, risk or character-building failure]." - J.F. Kennedy
U.S. President
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[Quote No.33550] Need Area: Friends > General
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." - William Somerset Maugham
Famous author. From 'Strictly Personal', published 1941.
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[Quote No.33564] Need Area: Friends > General
"Independence is my happiness... my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine
(1791 - 1792), from his book 'Rights of Man'.
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[Quote No.33569] Need Area: Friends > General
"Honor is better than honors." - Abraham Lincoln
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[Quote No.33572] Need Area: Friends > General
"The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession." - Iris Murdoch
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[Quote No.33599] Need Area: Friends > General
"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent." - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.33604] Need Area: Friends > General
"The philosophical framework of the capitalist society requires a system of laws — a government — to assure that the life and property of individuals are safeguarded. The role of government in a capitalist society is to establish and execute laws designed to keep the peace. As Mill observed, attempts by any to deprive others of their freedom must be prevented, and the force of law is essential to this end. Government in the capitalist society is symbolized by the blindfolded goddess of justice. The rule of law equally protecting life and property is fundamental to the development of a capitalist society." - Robert G. Anderson
Quote from 'The Freeman', published October 1979.
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[Quote No.33622] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom and individualism:] There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen." - Henry David Thoreau
Quote from his famous book, 'Civil Disobedience', published 1849.
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[Quote No.33623] Need Area: Friends > General
"The sole end for which mankind [government or other group] are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number [their innate inalienable freedom], is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right." - John Stuart Mill
Famous British social and economic philosopher.
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[Quote No.33630] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil [symptoms] to one who is striking at the root [cause]." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.33634] Need Area: Friends > General
"Each one [individual] is more precious than all [the constructed average 'group or society' which accurately describes no individual]." - Andre Gide
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[Quote No.33654] Need Area: Friends > General
"Beware of politicians trying to gain a short-term political victory at the cost of long-term economic damage. This is the worst kind of cynical populism, where politicians put sustaining their political life in front of the long-term needs of the community. It is the equivalent of inept company managers lining their own pockets and ensuring their jobs at the expense of the owners' money and the jobs of staff of the company they are paid to manage. In the business world it is considered immoral and cause for dismissal if not criminal charges; in the political world it is routine. Shame on those self-serving politicians." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.33655] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The size and responsibilities of government should always be kept to a minimum, not increased at every opportunity in a mistaken belief that that will help, because history has shown that governments are not good at doing anything efficiently. They don't attract the right people and they don't have a culture of value for money as they can simply raise taxes, which is not the test of voluntary financial contribution for a service or product that normal businesses must meet in order to survive and prosper. The following article reinforces this point.]
I am halfway through 'Game Change' ['Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin ], which is a brilliant analysis of the US election [in 2008]. One surprising revelation is the sheer ineptitude – and there really is no other word for it – of most politicians when it comes to managing their people and policy programs. Indeed, many notionally successful pollies seem to be case-studies in management dysfunction.
You would think that such skills would be core competencies, but they're not. And one does not have to search hard to find similar examples back home [in Australia]. Consider the oft-referenced turnover in many senior political offices, or, as another example, the ultra high-level former minister who, in striking contrast to his hard-working public profile, was one of the laziest masters the bureaucracy had ever seen. While holding putative responsibility for our collective welfare, this individual would refuse to read his department’s briefing notes and reportedly spent much of his day rehearsing lines in preparation for parliament.
Based on Game Change’s disclosures, even exceptionally experienced operators like Hillary Clinton do not appear to possess anything remotely like the expertise required to serve as a successful real-world manager. Clinton had a pathological aversion to addressing personal conflicts, which is a condition precedent for functional leadership. These shortcomings led to constant crises in her campaign, which, ironically given Hillary's criticism of it, bore a striking resemblance to the day-to-day operations of her husband's White House.
The management malady is an especially worrying thought when you consider that these folks ultimately have to run multi-trillion dollar economies.
Perhaps we should require 'professional politicians' – eg, those that have spent less than, say, five years ‘working’ in the real world – to complete an MBA or something similar. It almost seems like the worst possible training you could get prior to actually managing a country is a life spent in politics. This may be why genuinely effective political leaders are so few and far between. It's like trying to serve as a senior specialist in a hospital after having had five years running your student representative council.
Unfortunately, pollies compound these deficiencies by surrounding themselves with even less experienced advisors. It should be no surprise then that they struggle to 'execute' in a manner that is taken for granted in other walks of life.
This is an important lesson for talented new turks... I learnt the hard way that academia, the RBA [Reserve Bank of Australia] and even Goldman Sachs were poor training grounds for building a business from scratch. The real world is darker and more complex." - Christopher Joye
Managing Director of Rismark International.
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