“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”

“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.”

“Freedom is participation in power.”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”

“They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever”