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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.