"One citizen differs from another, but the..." - Quote by Aristotle

“The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.”

“The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.”

“You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '”

“I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.”

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

“Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.”

“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.”