There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

Power is not happiness.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.