Quotes from John Ruskin on the role government and the State. Wise words and very relevant today.
(John Ruskin 1819-1900)
"The
first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes.
The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
"The first duty of a state is to see that every child
born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains
years of discretion."
“What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses?”
"Civilisation is the making of civil persons."
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