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

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out