Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.