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• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• He has, I know not what, of greatness in his looks, and of high fate, that almost awes me.
  -- John Dryde...
• That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.
  His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government....
• He lifted himself up by his own bootstraps.
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself....
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself....
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...