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

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

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.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

All thingsat first appear difficult.