The property of power is to protect.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out