There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.