But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .

To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.