Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.