unfit quotes

Menof power havenottimetoread; yet menwho donot read are unfit for power.

- Michael Mackintosh Foot
  Debts of Honour.

A group of theunwilling, picked fromtheunfit, to dothe unnecessary.

- Richard Long Harkness
  Definition of a committee. In the NewYork Herald Tribune, 15  Jun.

Tofound a great Empirefor thesolepurpose of raising up a people of customers, mayat first sight appeara project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but 798 extremely fit for a nation that isgoverned by shopkeepers. See Napoleon 607:68, Punch 672:7, Stoppard 825:66.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.7, pt.3.