“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”

Call no man happy until he is dead.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Angels are winged with God’s power.

Justice, even if slow, is sure.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

In all things let reason be your guide.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

I do think we should be focused on substance and record. If you want a candidate who opposes amnesty, who opposes citizenship for the 12 million people here illegally, I’m the only candidate in the race who opposes that.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.