The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

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

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.