Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.

Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in read more

The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle!

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon read more

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.