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- The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. — John Ruskin
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine
- An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. — Friedrich List
- Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. — Friedrich List
- The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. — Friedrich List