If greed is the desire to do better things better, to learn and grow, to take risks and live fully — perhaps we need more of it. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.
the movie, Wall Street
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet and writer
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921 (1879-1955)
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last –more than passion or even sex! Simone Signoret
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France
1844-1924
Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day is stay at home … If you really don’t know enough to cast an intelligent vote, you should be eager to let your more informed neighbors make the decision. Greg Mankiw
October 2000,
The American people endorse this basic approach: They want to fix what’s broken, but they don’t want to destroy the system and rebuild it in the image of the Post Office. That’s where they disagree with the Clinton Administration and its Congressional allies. That is the great lesson of the current health care debate. Phil Gramm
Phil Gramm, USA Today, May 18, 1994
Taxes are government sponsored theft.
Unknown
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience? George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950