Stupidity is much the same all the world over

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

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

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.