The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.