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.

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.