To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.