Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.