"The Argives ascribed the foundation of their city to Pelasgic Argus, the hero with a hundred eyes; and its first flou…"

"Apparently the legislators felt that to alter certain customs, or to establish new ones, the safest procedure would b…"

"When an advanced thinker asked Lycurgus to establish a democracy Lycurgus replied, “Begin, my friend, by setting it u…"

"He [Solon] laid it down that those who remained neutral in seditions should lose their citizenship, for he felt that …"

"I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to…"

"Man is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imi…"

"If the average man had had his way there would probably never have been any state. Even today he resents it, classes …"

""For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, …"

"The civilization of Babylonia was not as fruitful for humanity as Egypt’s, not as varied and profound as India’s, not…"

"He [Solon] made it a crime to speak evil of the dead, or to speak evil of the living in temples, courts, or public of…"