An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household, and even those engaged in business have a fair idea of politics.
"The great impediment to right action is, in our opinion, not discussion, but the want of that knowledge which may be gained by discussion.
"We do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit." From the oration of Pericles, 450 B.C., as reported by Thucydides.
"Statesmen work in the dark until the idea of right towers above expediency or wealth.

The Spirit of Society, not any outward institution, is the mighty power by which the hard lot of man is to be ameliorated.
"Every line of history inspires a confidence that things mend.
This is the moral of all we learn; it warrants Hope, the prolific mother of all reforms.

Our part is plainly not to block improvement or to sit until we are stone but to watch the uprise of progressive mornings and to conspire with the new work of new days."-- EMERSON.
"Nations are the citizens of humanity as individuals are the citizens of the nation.

As any individual should strive to promote the power and prosperity of his nation through the exercise of his special function, so should every nation in performing its special mission perform its part in promoting the prosperity and progressive advance of humanity."-- MAZZINI.
"Our country hath a gospel of her own To preach and practise before all the world,-- The freedom and divinity of man, The glorious claims of human brotherhood." -- LOWELL.
=The Socialization of the Modern State.=--In a previous book before mentioned[20] and in many special articles published elsewhere, the idea has been stressed that society is now witnessing a remarkable coalescence of two ethical movements which are of special significance in the new political equality of men and women.

These two movements are, first, the call for the application to women of the principles embodied in our national Bill of Rights; and, second, the introduction of what is called social welfare work into governmental provisions and administration.