“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The only thing I command is respect.

This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.