The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.