Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.