When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.