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

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.