Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
The pilgrimage of Italy, which I now accomplished, had long been the object of my curious devotion. The passage of Mount Cenis, the regular streets of Turin, the Gothic cathedral of Milan, the scenery...
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Unchecked power corrupts.
But his days were shortened by poison, perhaps the most incurable of poisons; the stings of remorse and despair, and the bitter remembrance of lost glory.
Whose one hundred and twenty-nine homilies are still extant, if what no one reads may be said to be extant.]
The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have...
Once the monarchy was abolished, a decree was passed that there would be no more kings in Rome.
Justice, humanity, or political wisdom, are qualities they are too little acquainted with in themselves, to appreciate them in others. Valor will acquire their esteem, and liberality will purchase the...
In the reign of the emperor Caracalla, an innumerable swarm of Suevi appeared on the banks of the Main, and in the neighbourhood of the Roman provinces, in quest either of food, of plunder, or of glor...
During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment.
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
The fundamental maxim of Artistotle, that true virtue is placed at an equal distance between the opposite vices.
He forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.
And it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.