“It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.”

Hope, danger’s comforter.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.