When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.    Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)    Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.    Walter Anderson    There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.    Jacob Braude    There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.    Unknown        Strong reasons make strong actions.    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)   To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.    King Stanislas I of Poland   When I hear the word "culture" I reach for my gun.    Hans Johst (c. 1939)   Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.    Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects   He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.    George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907) act 3   The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.    Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944