“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”

“In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.”

“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”

“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”