Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
We must take the profit out of war.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.