There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

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

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

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

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.