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.

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.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

The marketplace is democratic.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

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.