You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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