...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.