The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. 


The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

To freemen, threats are impotent.