Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

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.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.