Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Faith is continuation of reason.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.