France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, -…

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to w…

'Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism s…