“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.

The welfare of the people is the highest law.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Freedom is participation in power.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.

In short, the end justifies the means.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.