The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Faith is continuation of reason.

You can't unscramble an egg.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous