I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. |
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. |
I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go |
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind |
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. |
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec |
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. |
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race |
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present |
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. |
It is right to interfere with anyone's liberty only if it to prevent harm to others |
Language is the light of the mind |
Liberty consists in doing what one desires |
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. |
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians |