The Worth Of The State, In The

A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Actions But By His Inaction, And In Either Case He Is Justly Accountable To Them For The Injury.

A Person's Taste Is As Much His Own Peculiar Concern As His Opinion Or His Purse.

Society Can And Does Execute Its Own Mandates: And If It Issues Wrong Mandates Instead Of Right, Or Any Mandates At All In Things With It Ought Not To Meddle, It Practices A Social Tyranny More Formidable Than Many Kinds Of Political Oppression, Since, Though Not Usually Upheld By Such Extreme Penalties, It Leaves Fewer Means Of Escape, Penetrating Much More Deeply Into The Details Of Life, And Enslaving The Soul Itself.

All Silencing Of Discussion Is An Assumption Of Infallibility.

No Slave Is A Slave To The Same Lengths, And In So Full A Sense Of The Word, As A Wife Is.