“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
