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- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin
- The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mohandas Gandhi
- But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. — Friedrich List
- 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