A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

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

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

There is no knowledge that is not power.