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- He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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