"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).
1900s
“You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Variant: Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.1
Max Born (1882–1970) physicist
The Voyage into the Dark (1961); also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 154
“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Source: De potentia (c. 1265–1266) q. 7, art. 9, ad 8
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) English composer
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.
