The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to