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

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

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

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

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.