If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.