"The city is more powerful than the individual."

"For where the awards for virtue are the greatest, there the best citizens are found."

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

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