state Quotes

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all... ...

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it... ...

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse... ...

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.