Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
BERNARD BARUCHGovernment 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Never follow the crowd.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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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.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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