Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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

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

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.