Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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.