“As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state—to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying towards its support. It is self-evident that in so behaving he in no way trenches upon the liberty of others; for his position is a passive one; and whilst passive he cannot become an aggressor. It is equally selfevident that he cannot be compelled to continue one of a political corporation, without a breach of the moral law, seeing that citizenship involves payment of taxes; and the taking away of a man’s property against his will, is an infringement of his rights.”

“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.”

“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”

“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”

“A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.”

“Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.”

“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”

“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“Government is essentially immoral.”