All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.