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- We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken
- 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