Better die standing than live kneeling.

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

Better die standing than live kneeling.

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.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

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.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.