The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.