Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

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.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.