city Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his... ...

A great city should not be confused with just a crowded one.

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors,... ...

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.