I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. I…

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness a…

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius q…

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consen…

- Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger