Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.