Far better to think

Far better to think
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
  

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Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion
Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.
If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.
Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.
The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.
Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.
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 strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.
Malicedrinketh its own poison.