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

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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