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...current situation, however, contains market distortions painfully obvious to any defender of free enterprise. Moreover, one must recall Thomas Jefferson's dictum: "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...
These shots heard, and seen, around the world appeared under the aegis of the first global TV news company, Cable News Network. Contrary to the dictum of former U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill that "all politics is local," CNN demonstrated that politics can be planetary, that ordinary people can take a deep interest in events remote from them in every way -- and can respond to reportage in global rather than purely nationalistic terms...
Perhaps I do think I know what's morally right. Another Christian virtue, however, humility, causes me to recognize my own limitations. For we all remain defect-ridden and fallible. Catholic especially emphasize Christ's dictum to "judge not lest you be judged." Even the prudential judgments of the popes, while important, can be mistaken...
Maxwell was a lifelong subscriber to Machiavelli's dictum that it is better to be feared than loved. David Adler, who was a Maxwell executive for three years, remembers being called on the carpet because he was unable to meet his master's plane at the airport. (He sent three limousines instead.) "Remember," Maxwell bellowed, "I am the most important person in your life...
...never more clearly revealed than in the unconscionable exploitation of Anita F. Hill. That these senators and their agents perceive Thomas to be a threat to the republic seems to justify for them their abusive and destructive tactics. Their high minded political passions notwithstanding, they illustrate the old dictum that a surplus of virtue is more dangerous than a surplus of vice, because a surplus of virtue is never subject to the constraints of conscience...