To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I told you I was sick.