Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.