Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.