I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.