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

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.