A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

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

Government is essentially immoral.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

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.

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.