Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.