I hold it to be

I hold it to be
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
  

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The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
Nostrength within, no respect without.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.
Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
The weaknesses of many make leader possible.
Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.