"The government of dependencies by a free nation is always a most difficult problem."

"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lessened the toil of any human being."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

"The only freedom which consists in doing what one likes, without regard to the tastes and feelings of other people, is not freedom at all."