To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

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

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.