Pericles — "We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we d…"

"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; …"

"The city is more powerful than the individual."

"Wealth is with us rather an opportunity for action than a subject for boasting."

"For a man may be rich and yet be useful to the state, or he may be poor and yet be useful."

"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."