The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.