The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

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

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

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.