"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."

"I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

"Only Americans can hurt America."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."

"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."

"There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust"

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"

"God's dice always have a lucky roll"

"For money, you would sell your soul."

"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law"

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

"When trouble ends even troubles please."

"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool."

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere."

"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

"Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

"You win the victory when you yield to friends."

"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."

"There is no greater evil than anarchy."

"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."

"There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day."

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."

"No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat."

"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed."

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."

"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."