Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every read more

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the read more

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.