"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 no country has ever yet been found that has proved equal to Athens in the hour of trial; and if our empire shall be overthrown, and we go down to defeat, our fall will be more glorious than that o…"

"For a man may be rich and yet be useful to the state, or he may be poor and yet be useful."

"For it is a common fault in men to despise what they possess, and to desire what they have not."

"For we have not acquired our power by force, but by justice."