Cicero

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.

Est enim hoc proprium civitatis, ut sit libera.

Non solum ad discendum propensi sumus, verum etiam ad docendum.

Omnes enim, qui de re publica bene merentur, in caelum ascendunt.

Nihil est tam utile quam ad id quod agas totum animum intendere.

In omnibus rebus, quidquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Freedom is participation in power.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Law is the bond of civil society.

There is no duty more indispensable than that of returning a kindness.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

The aim of war is peace.