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

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

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.