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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same...  
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, ...  
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; no...  
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about...   Business
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a ce...  
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a ...   Business
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamenta...  
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral la...  
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   Politics
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a...  
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every cl...   Government
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.  
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that s...  
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and ...  
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to l...