An Essay on the History of Civil Society Quotes

“The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people.”
― Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

“we employ so many of our early years, under the rod, to acquire, what it is not expected we should retain beyond the threshold of the school;”
― Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

“Whole bodies of men are sometimes infected with an epidemical weakness of the head, or corruption of heart, by which they become unfit for the stations they occupy, and threaten the states they compose, however flourishing, with the prospect of decay, and ruin.”
― Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society