Matsushita Konosuke (1894–1989) Japanese businessman
Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 58
“5968. You must plow with such Oxen as you have.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea.”
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America is ungovernable; those who served the revolution have plowed the sea.
As quoted in Man, State, and Society in Latin American History (1972) by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss, p. 133
Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.
We have plowed the sea.
I plowed furrows in the ocean.
I have plowed the sea. Our America will fall into the hands of vulgar tyrants.
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
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