Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.