"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man."

"If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself."

"There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar."

"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."

"The spread of freedom is the best security for the free."

"The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant."

"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."

"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."