Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols. It is as if an ox had strayed into a church and were trying to bethink himself. Nevertheless, they are capable of reverence; but we Yankees are a people in whom this sentiment has nearly died out, and in this respect we cannot bethink ourselves even as oxen.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.