What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

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

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.