He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.