Atheism Quote by John F. Kennedy

“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A…

— Will Durant

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city…

— Richard Rogers

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in…

— Pericles

The law in Athens is true in Rome

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]”

— Socrates

“We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of…

— Pericles

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Diogenes

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense,…

— Edward Everett

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape…

— Jostein Gaarder

“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the…

— Livy

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison