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Why do people go to college? To get a good job. Why do you want a good job? To earn money. What do you need money for? To pay for college.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to execute.

Capitalism is not an economic system—it is a prerequisite for freedom, just as freedom is a prerequisite for capitalism.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The essence of capitalism is not the perfectibility of man but the perfectibility of the market.

Government constantly chooses between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.