How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the laurel give way to praise.

History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.

-- Cicero

I see, and say nothing.

-- Elizabeth I of England