Cicero: “It was to eloquence, therefore, that our fathers assigned the foremost rank among the civil professions.”

In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.

For we are all attracted and drawn to a zeal for learning and knowing; and we think it glorious to excel therein, while we count it base and immoral to fall into error, to wander from the truth, to be ignorant, to be led astray.

Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?

The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another, unless provoked by wrong; and the next is to lead men to use common possessions for the common interests, private property for their own.