It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
John Dunbar: I am Lieutenant John J. Dunbar and this is my post.
Officer Fletcher: John, don't run. John Anderton: You don't have to chase me.
John Hartigan: ...Get some sleep. Nancy Callahan: Sleep with me. John Hartigan: No, Nancy!
One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
