The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.