What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adj...ustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it o...nly a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society ha...s generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existi...ng generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order tha...t they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and... instincts of masses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »