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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Bernard Baruch

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
BERNARD BARUCH

Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
BERNARD BARUCH

Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Country Decision Light Path Stock
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
BERNARD BARUCH

Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Destruction Peace War World
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
BERNARD BARUCH

Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCH

Hammers Nails Political
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH

Approach Problem Views
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Birthday Funny Grow Up
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Money Saving
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Country Information Wall
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Shooting War

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

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