There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness..

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind..

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination..

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind..

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason..

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children..

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions..

All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedienc….

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit..

God himself has no right to be a tyrant..

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to re….

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to ….

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and ….

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very ….

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him..

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is rig….

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate t….

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian..

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is….

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defe….

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny..