It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.