"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket no…"

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise from the differences of their perceptions."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."