Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

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

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising