[Story as recorded by Julius Paris: Scipio Africanus would not take part in public or private business without first having spent some...

Our state has always held that everything should be considered secondary to religion, even in cases where it also wanted to demonstrate...

All these burdens were shifted from the shoulders of the poor to those of the rich. The latter were then granted special privileges: for...

It is the privilege of antiquity to mingle divine things with human, and so to add dignity to the beginnings of cities; and if any people...

He had an extraordinary physical beauty and hardihood and an exceedingly shrewd and courageous spirit; he was unsurpassed in his love of...

Nearkhos relates that some of Alexander’s friends were severe with him, reproaching him because he put himself in danger out in front of...

When Alexander learned that Poros was approaching, he met him in front of the line with a few of the Companions. Halting his horse, he...

But that year, they say, Alexander neglected Dionysos and sacrificed to the Dioskouroi, it having for some reason occurred to him to...

None of these things, I surmise, can gain a man happiness unless that man, whose achievements are seemingly so great, should at the same...

Alexander now fell ill from exhaustion, according to Aristoboulos, though others say that, sweating and overheated and having an intense...

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law – religions, or religions...

The writer of this remembers a remark made to him by Mr. Jefferson concerning the English Newspapers which at that time, 1787, while Mr....

Poverty, therefore, is a thing created by that which is called civilized life. It exists not in the natural state. On the other hand, the...

There ought to be some regulation with respect to the spirit of denunciation that now prevails. If every individual is to indulge his...

As gold and silver are not the natural products of Pennsylvania, we have no other hard money than what the produce of the country...

It would be a circumstance ever to be lamented and never to be forgotten, were a single blot, from any cause whatever, suffered to fall...

But to take a more local view of matters. Why has the back country been ravaged by the repeated incursions of the enemy and the Indians,...

When we think or talk about taxes, we ought to recollect that we lie down in peace, and sleep in safety; that we can follow our farms or...

The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her...

An association of vices will reduce us more than the sword. Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Eric Foner, ed. Library of...

As we are forming Government on a new system, that of representation, I will give you my thoughts on the various classes and merits of...

An army in a city can never be a conquering army. Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Eric Foner, ed. Library of America....

Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject, and, like the foolish King...

To General Sir William Howe: To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in...