“Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength.”

Original: La persona che non parla alle spalle, ma in faccia, o si odia o si ama. Il deficiente la disprezza, l'intelligente la stima.
Source: prevale.net

Speech at the National Press Club (2004)

Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 531.

Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 8
Context: What I did understand from the rebirth process was that the rebirth reproduced a physical duplicate of the original. But this is my point. It is physical. What truly makes a man who he is? Is it the strength of his arms, or the courage of his soul? You have your own soul, Harad. You are not Druss. Live your own life.

‘Observations on Priestley's Emigration’ (August 1794), Porcupine's Works; containing various writings and selections, exhibiting a faithful picture of the United States of America, Volume I (1801), p. 169
1790s

Variant: He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.
Source: Revenge of the Witch

L’uomo insigne non è mai apprezzato nè in vita, nè in patria.
I Preguidizi del Paesi Piccoli, Act II., Sc. V. — (L’Uffiziale).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.