Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Ability is poor men's wealth

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

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.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

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

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.