Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.