If You Have Some Respect For People

There Is No Learning Without Some Difficulty And Fumbling. If You Want To Keep On Learning, You Must Keep On Risking Failure-all Your Life.

It Is One Of The Ironies Of History That Reformers So Often Misjudge The Consequences Of Their Reforms.

The Ablest And Most Effective Leaders Do Not Hold To A Single Style; They May Be Highly Supportive In Personal Relations When That Is Needed, Yet Capable Of A Quick, Authoritative Decision When The Situation Requires It.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

Nothing Can Be More Readily Disproved Than The Old Saw, "you Can't Keep A Good Man Down." Most Human Societies Have Been Beautifully Organized To Keep Good Men Down.