Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.