Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man