We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice. - John Stuart Mill

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.