"It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed."

-- James A. Garfield

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Employment Quotes

“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.”
“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.”
“What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added ***** of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.”
“All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?”
“Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.”
“I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.”
“Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.”
“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”

Source : "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.

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