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

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

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.