What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.