The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

You lose only the things you have

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

God has entrusted me with myself.