If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

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

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.