No nation is so

No nation is so
No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech
  

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A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
Only the educated are free.
Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.
Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.