Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

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.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.