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.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

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

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

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.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.