The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Man is a social animal.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...