We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.