Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.