Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea