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