Opinion

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. 

Source: Marcus Aurelius (Unsourced)
Taken From: International Man, Readers Respond 2011/12/05

Freedom and Service

You were called to freedom, brothers.  Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Paul of Tarsus, Galatians 5:13

Justice and Sovereignty

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Source: St. Augustine, Unsourced
Taken From: Superclass, David Rothkpf, 2008, pg 145

Sound Doctrine

We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

Source: Paul the Apostle in a letter to Timothy, 62-67AD
Taken From:  1st Tim 1:9-10

Knowledge and Conciet

... it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows

Source:  Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Taken From: The Art of Manliness Blog, Random Library of Man Knowledge

Character

No costly mansion, no mass of gold, no pride of race, no grandeur of office, no charm or force of eloquence can bestow upon life so clear skied a serenity as a soul purged of evil deeds and thoughts which keeps as a fountain of life a character imperturbable and untainted.

Plutarch

Take from:  http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/how-to-stare-death-in-the-face-with-style/

Laws and Corruption

... laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.

Publius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117)

Empty Hands

St. Augustine says 'God gives where He finds empty hands.' A man whose hands are full of parcels can't receive a gift.

C.S. Lewis (1958, Your's Jack, Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne)

Wisdom and War

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Peace and Joy

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Paul the Apostle (Romans 15:13, NIV, ~56AD)

Pirate Economics

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

A Pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"