“And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.”

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.

When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I am the Doctor of Democracy.