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

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

People say law but they mean wealth.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

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.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.