In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. – B. Zander, The Art of Possibility
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon