The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. (p. 18)

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. The latter c…

Some of those modern reformers who have placed themselves in strongest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects…

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of com…

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

'Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, 'You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?' No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I s…