"For legislators make the citizens good by..." - Quote by Aristotle

“It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.”

“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”

“There must be in prudence also some master virtue.”

“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.”

“If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.”

“It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.”

“Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.”

“We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.”

“I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.”