The yeoman farmers of the United States have always been the strength of the republic. - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

We must not pursue science for ends independent of science. It must be pursued for its own sake, and must lead to its own results.

I was struck in reading Karl Marx's new work by the extent to which he fetches his materials from England. It is a remarkable book, as the Koran of the new socialists.

To proclaim the Pope infallible was their compendious security against hostile States and Churches, against human liberty and authority, against disintegrating tolerance and rationalizing science, against error and sin.