DJP Update 10-22-2012 Publication! Available now: The Little Red Book of Leadership Lessons
Foreword by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
My new book released this week! Available in hardcover and e-book format. Some excerpts at end of this note.
Lots of excitement at the two book signings and ran out of books at Savannah signing yesterday.
Hope you can lend a hand to a writer and order a copy. As explained in past, the way to make the best seller list is to get a bunch of orders in during one week.
This is a book of leadership quotes leading to liberty with 108 illustrations/photos. And as you will see below, some of the quotes are more than a few lines. Available now and one review already posted! If you agree with the review below, please write a review.
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5.0 out of 5 stars “A home run again” October 19, 2012
By Ken C
Format: Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Again Dr Palmisano has hit it out of the park. The book is a fast, timely read. The style from his previous books on leadership works very well in this new format. It is full of timely quotations that are both informative and reusable. He has added new leaders and their unique leadership talents. Well worth the price.
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Page 159: (from Robert H. Jackson’s powerful summation in the Nazi War Criminals Trial. The facts lead to only one conclusion about evil people on trial.
The fact is that the Nazi habit of economizing in the use of truth pulls the foundations out from under their own defenses. Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, advocated mendacity as a policy.
. . . . Besides outright false statements and doubletalk, there are also other circumventions of truth in the nature of fantastic explanations and absurd professions. Streicher has solemnly maintained that his only thought with respect to the Jews was to resettle them on the island of Madagascar. His reason for destroying synagogues, he blandly said, was only because they were architecturally offensive.
Rosenberg was stated by his counsel to have always had in mind a “chivalrous solution” to the Jewish problem. When it was necessary to remove Schuschnigg after the Anschluss, von Ribbentrop would have had us believe that the Austrian chancellor was resting at a “villa.” It was left to cross-examination to reveal that the “villa” was Buchenwald concentration camp.
. . . It is against such a background that these defendants now ask this tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planning, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs. They stand before the record of this trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you: “Say I slew them not.” And the queen replied, “Then say they were not slain. But dead they are. . . .” If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.
—Robert H. Jackson, chief counsel for the United States in the war crimes trial of Nazi officials
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Page 204:
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less that that which the smallest functionaire possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work.
—Fredrich von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944
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Page 213:
The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are ‘too great for private industry.’ This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the taxpayers’ money that no one is willing to take with his own.
Such a policy would lead to evils of many different kinds. It would lead to favoritism: to the making of loans to friends, or in return for bribes. It would inevitably lead to scandals. It would lead to recriminations whenever the taxpayers’ money was thrown away on enterprises that failed. It would increase the demand for socialism: for, it would properly be asked, if the government is going to bear the risks, why should it not also get the profits? What justification could there possibly be, in fact, for asking the taxpayers to take the risks while permitting private capitalists to keep the profits?
—Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, 1946
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Page 222
[T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.
—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 1869
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Page 225
For all tyranny does not come with tanks and jackboots. Tyranny
also creeps in, like the fog, “on little cat feet.” Softly, soothingly.
Tyranny carries a nicely lettered sign on which it says, “This is
being done for the public good.” Tyranny is sly. It whispers to
you and says, “You and I know what the best thing is to do. But
those poor people over there are not as fortunate as you and
I. They do not have the wisdom to know that what we want is
really for their own good.” Tyranny puts its arm around your
shoulder and says, “Let’s you and I save them from themselves.
Let us force them to make the right choice, and later, when they
are wiser, they will thank us.” Tyranny says, “Let us draw up
some rules to prevent the advocacy of ideas that we know are
wrong. Come, let us go together and curb evil.”
—Tom Dillon, speech 1963, 1976 Freedom Must
Advertise
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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from
injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to
close the circle of our felicity.
—President Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural
Address
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Donald
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Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD
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