... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.