Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.

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

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.