Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.

The sacred words penetrate the heart.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.