"To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side".
-Thucydides-

"An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful."
-Thucydides-

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
-Thucydides-

"War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse ....
Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value ...."
-Thucydides-