Far better to

Far better to
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.
No strength within, no respect without.
Habit: the shackles of the free
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.
Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.