Our power is in our ability to decide.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

In God we trust; all others pay cash.