"The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice."

"A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."

"The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality, but only when the 'itself' is composed of all the people, and the 'government' is the government of all by all."

"It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak."

"Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either."