The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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 a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.