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“If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.”

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Ben Moreell

Ben Moreell, born on September 14, 1892, and died on July 30, 1978, was an individual whose profession and category are unknown. His life story and contributions are not detailed due to limited information. more

“A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.”

Wells Made States Character Individual Waiting Moral Cases Struggle Feet Economic Benefits Capacity Very Good Obstacles Resourcefulness Handouts

Author:William Henry Chamberlin

“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.”

“A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old, and so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.”

Ifs Men World Long Doe Might Together Law Dies Courses Grows Natural Boys Dog Tears Dues Heartache Manhood Avoided Puppy Natural Law

Book:Thrifty Stock: And Other Stories

Source: Thrifty Stock: And Other Stories

“Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.”

Way Greater Discovery

Book:Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator

Source: Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator

“When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.”

Facts Remember One Thing Wind Highest Adversity Spite Opposition Kites

Author:John By

“Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.”

Products Engineers Technological Fabrication

Author:Samuel Florman

“No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley, impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will, temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent possession of the soil.”