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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -Plato

Over time, the size and complexity of the economy will outgrow the sophistication of static financial safety buffers. - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)

“I don’t think it’s a bailout – the shareholders still own the company.”
- 7/15/08 Bush Jr. on government assurances to shore up the massive lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac



GOD QUOTES:
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare

All men have need of the gods.
- Homer

He (man) has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
- Mark Twain

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.
- Frederick the Great

To Americans and the rest of Christendom we say, either repent misguided ways and enter into the light of truth or keep your poison to yourself and suffer the consequences in this world and the next,"
-Adam Yahiye Gadahn 2006

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
-Mark Twain

"But you say you're religious... that you're a member of the Orthodox Church. Don't you realize that your religion forbids the killing of a man? Is your faith serious or is it on the surface?" The boy thoughtfully answered, "Yes, it is on the surface."
- Judge to accused in the trail of Franz Ferdinand (1914)

"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe does, and it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding and cooperation.

No other society has such a record of success uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so various races of mankind . . . Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition.

If ever the opposition of the great societies of East and West is to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition. In its hands lies very largely the solution of the problem with which Europe is faced in its relation with East. If they unite, the hope of a peaceful issue is immeasurably enhanced. But if Europe, by rejecting the cooperation of Islam, throws it into the arms of its rivals, the issue can only be disastrous for both."

H. A. R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, London, 1932


VOICES OF GOVERNMENT:

From the price of rice to roads and tourist sites , there is not a single problem in this country which is not related to national security. If you happen to be a very deep thinker, that too is a matter of national security.
- Orhan Erkanh (14 years after taking part in the May 1960 coup d’etat of Turkey)