Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child