"For no country has ever yet been found that has proved equal to Athens in the hour of trial; and if our empire shall be overthrown, and we go down to defeat, our fall will be more glorious than that o…"

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

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

"We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we do not make our enemies by receiving injuries, but by inflicting them."

"We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; …"