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

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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

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