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

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.