Every Man Has A Certain Sphere Of

Make Men Wise, And By That Very Operation You Make Them Free. Civil Liberty Follows As A Consequence Of This; No Usurped Power Can Stand Against The Artillery Of Opinion.

Whenever Government Assumes To Deliver Us From The Trouble Of Thinking For Ourselves, The Only Consequences It Produces Are Those Of Torpor And Imbecility.

By Right, As The Word Is Employed In This Subject, Has Always Been Understood Discretion, That Is, A Full And Complete Power Of Either Doing A Thing Or Omitting It, Without The Person's Becoming Liable To Animadversion Or Censure From Another, That Is, In Other Words, Without His Incurring Any Degree Of Turpitude Or Guilt. Now In This Sense I Affirm That Man Has No Rights, No Discretionary Power Whatever.

All Education Is Despotism. It Is Perhaps Impossible For The Young To Be Conducted Without Introducing In Many Cases The Tyranny Implicit In Obedience. Go There; Do That; Read; Write; Rise; Lie Down - Will Perhaps Forever Be The Language Addressed To Youth By Age.

Power Is Not Happiness.