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The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.