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Friday, April 18, 2003

 

Free people argue about the meaning of freedom, but they can do this only because freedom is part of the air they breathe. Those who despise our freedom as the mark of wickedness are not interested in our own ongoing debate about the good and ill uses of freedom. It is freedom itself that they despise.

- Jean Bethke Elshtain
Just War Against Terror

Thursday, April 17, 2003

 

Trust is prerequisite to any attempt by the leader to transform or change his or her organization's culture. Vision setting and dissemination depends on trust in the leader. Carrying out vision-based programs requires trust. Trust is the salient factor in determining effectiveness in many relationships. Trust makes interpersonal acceptance and openness of expression easy. Mistrust evokes interpersonal rejection and arouses defensive behavior.

- Gilbert W. Fairholm
Leadership and the Culture of Trust

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

 

The Internet has provided for much of the world the greatest demonstration of the power of freedom - and its lesson is one we must learn if its benefits are to be preserved...Always and everywhere, free resources have been crucial to innovation and creativity; without them, creativity is crippled.

- Lawrence Lessig
The Future of Ideas
Stanford Law web page

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

 

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

- James Humes

Monday, April 14, 2003

 

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

- Jonathan Livingston Seagull