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

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.