A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.