- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.
- Folly
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- Nov 07, 2020
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
- Prepare
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020