Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.