Only the educated are free.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

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