Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

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.

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