"So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything."
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."