Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
The great creative individual. . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat. , Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur. ]
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.
You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.