Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.