Arthur F. Burns quotes

Arthur F. Burns quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Spontaneity has its time and its place.”
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Spontaneity Quotes
“My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!”
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Government Quotes #Effort Quotes #Gold Quotes
“We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.”
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Brutal Quotes
“As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?”
-- Arthur F. Burns

#School Quotes #Mind Quotes #May Quotes

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