The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.