The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

I had drunk myself to oblivion, Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber, My consciousness had parted ways, Taking a well-earned vacation.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

The beginning of peace is a smile

Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.