The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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