Whether You Think You Can, Or You

There Are Two Fools In This World. One Is The Millionaire Who Thinks That By Hoarding Money He Can Somehow Accumulate Real Power, And The Other Is The Penniless Reformer Who Thinks That If Only He Can Take The Money From One Class And Give It To Another, All The World's Ills Will Be Cured.

Time Waste Differs From Material Waste In That There Can Be No Salvage. The Easiest Of All Wastes And The Hardest To Correct Is The Waste Of Time, Because Wasted Time Does Not Litter The Floor Like Wasted Material.

No Government Can Guarantee Security. It Can Only Tax Production, Distribution And Service And Gradually Crush The Power To Pay Taxes. That Settles Nothing. It Only Uses Up The Gains Of The Past And Postpones The Developments Of The Future.

Life Is A Series Of Experiences, Each One Of Which Makes Us Bigger, Even Though Sometimes It Is Hard To Realize This. For The World Was Built To Develop Character, And We Must Learn That The Setbacks And Grieves Which We Endure Help Us In Our Marching Onward.

Records Can Be Destroyed If They Do Not Suit The Prejudices Of Ruling Cliques, Lost If They Become Incomprehensible, Distorted If A Copyist Wishes To Impose A New Meaning Upon Them, Misunderstood If We Lack The Information To Interpret Them. The Past Is Like A Huge Library, Mostly Fiction.