An educated people can be easily governed.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Go for continuous self development if you aim at reaching mountaintop of your self-mastery.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.