A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

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

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.