Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

The secret of freedom, courage.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.