“Here again, if I should rise up and boldly affirm that all these counsels be to the king dishonor and reproach, whose honor and safety is more and rather supported and upholder by the wealth and riches of his people than by his own treasures, and if I should declare that the commonality chooseth their king for their own sake and not for his sake, to the intent that through his labor and study they might all live wealthily, safe from wrongs and injuries, and that therefore the king ought to take more care for the wealth of his people than for his own wealth, even as the office and duty of a shepherd is, in that he is a shepherd, to feed his sheep rather than himself. ”
—Sir Thomas More, “Utopia”