It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.