No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.