I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings