"What I fear is not the enemy's strategy, but our own mistakes."

"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…"

"We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty tha…"

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"

"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."