A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

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

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

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.

The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

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.

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