The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
— Billy Graham
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.
— Frank Herbert
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.