Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

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.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

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

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.