There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.