The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.
We ought to look the world frankly in the face.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.