Julius Caesar

• Romans, countrymen, and lovers!
• Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
• Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe.
• Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.
• If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
• Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to live all freemen?
• As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him.
• There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.
• Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak, for him have I offended.
• Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for him have I offended.
• Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak, for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.  
• Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus.
• The question of his death is enrolled in the Capitol, his glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offenses enforced, for which he suffered death.
• Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth, as which of you shall not?
• With this I depart- that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
• If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.