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

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.