The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

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

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

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