We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.