Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.