The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

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.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.