What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

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

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

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.