Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.