The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

You should not honor men more than truth.