The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others. |
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. |
The loathsome combination of Church and State |
The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France |
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. |
the man that reads nothing is better educated than the man that reads nothing more than newspapers |
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. |
The man who is dishonest as a statesman would be a dishonest man in any station |
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors |
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. |
The merchant has no country |
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible |
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. |
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body |
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory |