In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. – John W. Gardner

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. – Lady Bird Johnson