Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
- Roger Williams
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
- Cicero
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.