Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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.

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.

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