Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

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

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable