The living deserve attention, too
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Trust the universe and respekt your hair.
The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.
I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it. " I will tell you this. No - in fact, watching shows, they're reading the papers. Almost every lawyer says, you don't release your returns until the audit's complete.