"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…"

"For we are the only people who deem him that takes no part in public business not as unambitious but as useless."

"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…"

"Our government is not copied from those of our neighbors: we are an example to them rather than they to us."

"It is not the man who makes the most speeches that is to be feared, but the one who acts best."