When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?

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

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

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.

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