In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.