Favor And Honor Sometimes Fall More Fitly

Truth Is Often Eclipsed But Never Extinguished.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Men Are Seldom Blessed With Good Fortune And Good Sense At The Same Time.

This Was The Athenians' War Against The King Of Macedon, A War Of Words. Words Are The Only Weapons The Athenians Have Left.

There Is Nothing That Is More Often Clothed In An Attractive Garb Than A False Creed.