Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Renown and repose do not go together.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.