Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces but which all experience refutes.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.