“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
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“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”
Source: The God of the Machine
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
“If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.”
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
Source: Ronald Reagan
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
“The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer