He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.