The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.