A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to hi… - Louis Brandeis

[N]o people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .

There must be opportunities for judgment to mature. When, therefore, you increase your business to a very great extent, and the multitude of problems increase with its growth, you will find, in the first place, that the man at the head has a diminishing knowledge of the facts and, in the second place, a diminishing opportunity of exercising a careful judgment upon them.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. The duties of the office of private citizen cannot under a republican form of government be neglected without serious injury to the public.