Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.