Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.