The Great Depression like most other periods of severe unemployment was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The Jews don't like Farrakhan so they call me Hitler. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.