Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.