Let reason govern desire.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

The freedom of poetic license.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?