The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

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

If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.