It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.