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“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art”. –Claude Debussy