That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.