It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.