"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."

"Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

"I love children - especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."

"There are no office hours for leaders."

"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."

"PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile."

"To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."