Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

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

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.