The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.