Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.