There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.