Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

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

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

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

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.