Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.