There is no advance without strife.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.