Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

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.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

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

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.