Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

When they remain silent, they cry out.