Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists