"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at a…"

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other peop…"

"The rules that obtain among themselves [a people] appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but unive…"

"The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practical…"

"The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscie…"

"Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim t…"

"The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of soc…"

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accoun…"

"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attem…"

"The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine…"