Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.