Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

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.

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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.