I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of free...
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than t...
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Better late than never.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
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