Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.”
Source: End of Watch
“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: Montaigne: Essays
Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)
Context: Too many misinterpretations have been made; too many misunderstandings have come up between the white men and the Indians. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the Great White Chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
“Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”
Source: Every Day
“Each party tended to view its own chances in court as better than the other side viewed them.”
Part II, Chapter 5, Settling Out of Court, p. 75.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)
Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
