Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

A half truth is a whole lie.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.