Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Science is organized knowledge.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.