For Want of a Better Title

Pro deo et patria - For God and Country (Motto of American University)

Per veritatem vis - Strength through truth (Motto of Washington University in St Louis)

Corruptissima republica plurimae leges - When the republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous (Tacitus)

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. (Lord Acton)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. (Aristophanes)

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792)

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.(Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (Patrick Henry)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne)

The unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates)

Memento mori - remember that [you will] die (Motto of Trappist Order)

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest - Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself (Aesop Fables, Paracles’ Motto)

Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare - Anyone can err, but only the fool persists in his fault (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. (Thomas Jefferson)

salus populi suprema lex esto - the welfare of the people is to be the highest law (From Cicero’s De Legibus, book III, part III, sub. VIII)

Omnia relinquit servare Republicam -He gave up everything to preserve the Republic (Motto of Cincinnatus)

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company (George Washington)

Duty is ours, results are God’s. (John Quincy Adams)

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mahatma Gandhi)

You must be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. (Benjamin Franklin)

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. (Michel de Montaigne)

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State “What does it matter to me?” the State may be given up for lost. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Sic semper tyrannis - Thus always to tyrants (motto of Virginia)

Everything looks impossible for people who never try anything. (Joan Louis Etienna)

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)

Learning is not obtained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. (Abigail Adams)

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. (Plato)

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! (Robert A. Heinlein - Author of Starship Troopers)