A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.