The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.