So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.