Reputation is the road to power

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Right... is the child of law.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.