The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

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

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.