Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. This is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it’s difficult to sit on it.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
What the goat does, the kid follows.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
If the clause of the Constitution under which the Post Office establishment exists were struck from the instrument to-morrow, is any one weak enough to suppose that the activity of commerce would not soon supply a system of its own?