"Persistence in a single view has never..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”

“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”

“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.”

“Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.”

“One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.”

“[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.”

“However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.”

“In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.”

“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”