"For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by inferiors."

"I am of the opinion that the individual who takes no part in public affairs is not to be regarded as a harmless, but as a useless character."

"For we are the only people who deem him that takes no part in public business not as unambitious but as useless."

"For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes, but in public, we are ruled by the will of the majority."

"The city is more powerful than the individual."