Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves - Pericles

The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

But 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.