Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

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