Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.