“Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.”

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’

Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.