"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."