He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound… to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be...

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because...

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.