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

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

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

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?