Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

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 .