The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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)