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Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.