The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.