Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

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