"The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite."

"I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, E…"

"Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting head…"

"To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a …"

"Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people."

"Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a …"

"To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the…"

"Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping t…"

"To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling…"

"The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number …"