Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.