Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.