Nations get as

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

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
Nevermistake silence for agreement.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Compromise,n. 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.
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
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.
Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.