"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."

“For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.”

“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”

“He who controls the sea controls everything.”

“I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.”

“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”

“Strike, if you will, but hear.”