The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.