| 1. | Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 2. | If one son of a king were a philosopher, and had obedient citizens, he might bring the ideal polity into being. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | Well, then, we were led to form our ideal polity in the search after justice, and the just man answered to the just State. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 4. | Until, then, kings are philosophers, or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill no, nor the human race nor will our ideal polity ever come into being. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 5. | For there is no trace in Greek history of a polity like the Spartan or Cretan passing into an oligarchy of wealth, or of the oligarchy of wealth passing into a democracy. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | But, said I, one is enough let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might bring into existence the ideal polity about which the world is so incredulous. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | Then let us now proceed to describe the inferior sort of natures, being the contentious and ambitious, who answer to the Spartan polity also the oligarchical, democratical, and tyrannical. - from The Republic by Plato |