I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.