Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.