There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.