Civilization game - George's favorite quotes
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- It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
- The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones
- Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime
- Not at all similar are the race of immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the Earth
- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it
- I am the state
- The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
- You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word
- There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance
- Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both
- Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe
- Corporation. n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility
- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use
- It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death, all things appear fair.
- People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it's black
- Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car
- We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children
- There is one rule for the industrialist: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible
- We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles
- The wisest men follow their own direction
- And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried
- When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist