No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is... →
Richard Jefferies
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches... →
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of... →
Thomas Jefferson
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to... →
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly... →
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.