Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.