We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest 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

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.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.