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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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.

The property of power is to protect.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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