Individual Quote by David Hume

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a…

— James Harrington

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

— Thabo Mbeki

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the…

— Thomas Aquinas

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

— Lori Lightfoot

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules…

— Paul Romer

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go…

— Trevor Phillips

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

— Euripides

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

— John Hickenlooper

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

— Grover Cleveland

[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners…

— Murray Rothbard