Category: Thought

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

The struggle of endurance involved in a strike is, really, what it has often been compared to — a war; and, like all war, it lessens wealth. And the organization for it must, like the organization for war, be tyrannical.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.

Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.