Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.