Thedirect use of

Thedirect use of
Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
  

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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
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.
Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Nothing is a permanent except change.
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.
When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.