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

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.