If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.