Bust of Aristotle courtesy Wikimedia commons

* “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

Aristotle

* “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

* “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”

Aristotle

* “Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrate and the magistrates obey the law.”

Solon

*”Only the dead have seen the end of war.”                                                                            Plato

Assembled by John Hawkins, Townhall May 4, 2016