No strength within, no respect without.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.