Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.