Humans are naturally social and political creatures.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
The start of reform is not just to make property equal, but to train noble people not to want more, and to stop lower classes from getting more.
Peace is more difficult than war.
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
The main goal of a statesman is to create a certain moral character in their citizens, specifically a tendency towards virtue and performing good actions.
Therefore, the ultimate goal of politics should be the good of humanity.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
