“If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Thomas Mann
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.”
Cicero
“The more laws, the less justice.”
“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”