A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
BERNARD BARUCHAlthough the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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.
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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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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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