Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
There never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Courage is not having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.