Demosthenes

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. ”

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. ”

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ”

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. ”

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ”

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. ”

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ”

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ”

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. ”

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. ”