No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home