400. "The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form." -
Gandhi
401. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for" -
Thomas Jefferson
*402. "The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves" -
John Locke
403. "Government is at best a necessary evil, and at worst an intolerable one" -
Thomas Paine
404. "America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men." -
Ayn Rand
405. "Things in our country run in spite of government, not because of it"-
Will Rogers
406. "Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world." --Robert Hillyer
407. "We cultivate the hatred of bureaucracy in our company and never for a moment and never for a moment hesitate to use that awful word 'hate.' Bureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed. They multiply in organizational layers and behind functional walls-which means that everyday must be a battle to demolish the structure and keep the organization open, ventilated, and free." -
General Electric 2000 Annual Report
408. �I can�t do a damn thing for you unless I�m elected.�
-Ronald Reagan
409. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Ben Franklin
410. "Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants. "
411. "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
-John Locke
412. "Better is the enemy of good."
--Anon.
413. "Nobody believes the official spokesperson, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." -Ron Nesen
414. I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that. -Tom Lehrer
415. Love doesn't make the world go round. Love just makes the ride worthwhile
--Franklin P. Adams
416. If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
-- M.H. Alderson
417. You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
-- Dick Armey
418. Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
-- Isaac Asimov
419. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
-- Warren G. Bennis
420. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Henri Bergson
421. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
422. The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
-- Edward de Bono
423. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
424. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
425. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
-- William F. Buckley Jr.
426. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
-- Michael Caine
427. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie
428. The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- W. E. Channing
429. There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
the same one."
--Frances Clark
430. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
431. There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
-- John Erskine
432. I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. -
Milton Friedman
433. Steps are good, too many steps are bad. Elevators are better
-- Mark Garcia
434. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
-- Greek Proverb
435. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness
436. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
437. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
-- Pope John XXIII
438. No statue has ever been erected for the critic.
-- Cameron Koo.
439. Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson
440. If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
-- Jay Leno
441. Even the lonely woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head
-- Joe Marcucci
442. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
-- David McIntosh
443. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
-- Stanley Milgram
444. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-- Alfred Nobel
445. A little Government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
446. Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
-- Pope John Paul II
*447. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
-- Carl Schurz
448. The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
-- George Will
449. History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic
-- Walter Williams
450. It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
-- F.M. Young
451. "You can flatter any man by telling him he's the kind of man who can't be flattered." --Laurence J. Peter
452. "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." --H. L. Mencken
453. "The smallest minority on earth is the individual." -- Ayn Rand
454. "When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
--Louis Nizer
455. "The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." --Rebecca West
456. "Life doesn't work out the way that we like it to, that's why God invented antidepressants and hugs."
457"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." --Goethe
458. "The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself." --Thomas Szasz
459 "When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." --Ursula K. LeGuin
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