In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service.

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of human society...must in a moment crumble into atoms.

Adam Smith

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp-followers.

Ernest Hemingway

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

Rafik Hariri

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Thomas Jefferson

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

Little Richard

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

George Bernard Shaw

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Fitzhugh Dodson