Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience