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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

  Bernard Baruch

  Responsibility, Ethics, Tomorrow

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1957). “Baruch: The public years”

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• We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Bridges, Economy, Crosses

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• So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

  Bernard Baruch

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• I never lost money by turning a profit.

  Bernard Baruch

  Lost, Profit, Lost Money

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• Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Government, People, Individuality

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• Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

  Bernard Baruch

  Money, Business, Saving

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• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

  Bernard Baruch

  Time, Boys, Leader

  In New York Times 21 June 1965, p. 16

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• Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

  Bernard Baruch

  Loss, Men, Yield

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• A man can't retire his experience.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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• Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

  Bernard Baruch

  Men, Economy, Increase

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• Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

  Bernard Baruch

  Lying, Race, Agreement

  Bernard Baruch's Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946.

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• I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

  Bernard Baruch

  Father, Believe, Medicine

  "New York Post" Newspaper, May 1, 1959.

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• There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

  Bernard Baruch

  Health, Science, Men

  Quoted by his son, Simon Baruch, the surgeon, in a speech, 30 April (1954)

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• We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

  Bernard Baruch

  Choices, Today

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• Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

  Bernard Baruch

  Book, Giving, Old Friends

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• Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Years, Two

  Bernard Baruch (1944). “Park Bench Statesman”

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• No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

  Bernard Baruch

  Zero, Men, Thinking

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• The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

  Bernard Baruch

  Wall, Believe, England

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• Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Government, Fool

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• You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

  Bernard Baruch

  Struggle, Government, Political

  In The Times 20 Aug. 1964

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• There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

  Bernard Baruch

  Power, Men, Information

  "Baruch: My own story".

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• Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, Shooting, Cold

  Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.

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• Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, Work, Lying

  Bernard Baruch's Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946.

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• The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, Men, Weaponry

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