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

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.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

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

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

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.