Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

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.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

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.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.