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.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.