Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Law is mind without reason.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.