Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.