To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

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.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

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

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

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.

The marketplace is democratic.