"Socrates. If, then, you wish public measures to be right and noble, virtue must be given by you to the citizens.
"Alcibiades. How could any one deny that?
"Socrates. Virtue, therefore, is that which is to be first possessed, both by you and by every other person who would have direction and care, not only for himself and things dear to himself, but for the state and things dear to the state.
"Alcibiades. You speak truly.
"Socrates. To act justly and wisely (both you and the state), YOU MUST ACT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD.
"Alcibiades. It is so."—Plato.
"Sic igitur hoc a principio persuasum civibus, dominos esse omnium rerum ac moderatores, deos."—Cicero de Legibus.
"We shall never be such fools as to call in an enemy to the substance of any system, to supply its defects, or to perfect its construction."
"If our religious tenets should ever want a further elucidation, we shall not call on atheism to explain them. We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire."
"We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is, by his constitution, a religious animal."—Burke.