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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.