Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.