If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

In a major matter no details are small.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.