So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

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.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.