Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.