So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

They make a desert and call it peace.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes