On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.