Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all..

We do not imitate, but are a model to others..

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it..

The marketplace is democratic..

Time is the wisest counselor of all..

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time..

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs..

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all..

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others..

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of o….

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol wov….

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended mo….

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now..

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all..

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength..

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in….

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it..

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something ….

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger..

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill..