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. – John Ruskin
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. – John Ruskin
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin