Stranger: But the art which holds sway over them all and watches over the laws and all things in the state, weaving them all most perfectly together, ...

Stranger: Then if we bisected intellectual science as a whole and called one part the commanding and the other the judging part, might we say we had m...

Stranger: People nowadays are likely to take into consideration enforced subjection and voluntary obedience, poverty and wealth, law and lawlessness a...

Stranger: Can we wonder, then, that our soul, whose nature involves it in the same uncertainty about the letters or elements of all things, is sometim...

Stranger: Apparently, then, we must expect a complete description of the statesman only when we have defined the manner of his rule over the state. – ...

“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke (1870)