It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

Better die standing than live kneeling.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.