A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

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.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.