All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

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.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible.

In extreme youth in our most humiliating sorrow we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

We cheerleaders are peppy and happy and get front row seats to the game!

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.