The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.