"The strongest argument against despotism is that it does not adequately educate the people it governs."

"Every man who says frankly and without cant, what he thinks, will be in some way a benefactor to his age."

"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."

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."

"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…"