outboard mind

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."

"We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometimes guest;
But oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Ah! lips with the curl impatient -
‘Twere a cruel fate were the night too late
To undo the work of the morn."

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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

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"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."