The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

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.

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

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.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

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