"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now."

"For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes, but in public, we are ruled by the will of the majority."

"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; wh…"

"For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe."

"For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst, nor do we prevent anyone from learning or seeing anything, provided that by so doing he does not harm the st…"