It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.