1 "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine. When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead."
2 "He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either."
3 "To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
4 "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
5 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens canchange the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."
6 "The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made."
7 "I know there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that."
8 "Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other."
9 "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
10 "The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit."
A - Aristotle
B - Confucius
C - Milton Friedman
D - Martin Luther King, Jr.
E - Tom Lehrer
F - James Madison
G - Groucho Marx
H - Margaret Mead
I - Gen. George S. Patton
J - George Bernard Shaw
Listed above are ten quotations and individuals. Match the person (letter) to their quotation (number), and e-mail your answers (along with your name and mailing address) to flagcitypolitico@gmail.com by 11:59p on Saturday, June 9, 2007. Out of all the entries I receive with the highest number of correct answers, one person's name will be drawn at random for a gift certificate to The Woodland Restaurant.
-RSKnopfJr
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