...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.