The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.