Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Every class is unfit to govern.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.