The more laws, the less justice. |
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature. |
When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. |
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. |
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
By doubting we all come at truth. |
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? |
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. |
Endless money forms the sinews of war. |
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. |
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. |
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. |
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. |
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. |
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
