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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.