He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.