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• The job of the leader is to make it easy to do the right thing, difficult to do the wrong thing.
• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family.
  But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living....
• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family.
  But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too, the way his government is living....
• Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.
  -- Robert Somme...
• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
  -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Governme...
• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Terence
• To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. -- Plutarch
• The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified.
  But it is equally important to accept and tolerate different standards of courtesy, not expecting everyone else to adapt to one's own preferences....