If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.