A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.