Whoever Becomes Imbued With A Noble Idea

Whoever Becomes Imbued With A Noble Idea Kindles A Flame From Which Other Torches Are Lit, And Influences Those With Whom He Comes In Contact, Be They Few Or Many. How Far That Influence, Thus Perpetuated, May Extend, It Is Not Given To Him Here To See.

Discovery Can Give No Right Of Ownership, For Whatever Is Discovered Must Have Been Already Here To Be Discovered. If A Man Makes A Wheelbarrow, Or A Book, Or A Picture, He Has A Moral Right To That Particular Wheelbarrow, Or Book, Or Picture, But No Right To Ask That Others Be Prevented From Making Similar Things. Such A Prohibition, Though Given For The Purpose Of Stimulating Discovery And Invention, Really In The Long Run Operates As A Check Upon Them.

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.

It Is Not The Business Of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or To Preserve The Fool From The Consequences Of His Own Folly. Government Should Be Repressive No Further Than Is Necessary To Secure Liberty By Protecting The Equal Rights Of Each From Aggression On The Part Of Others, And The Moment Governmental Prohibitions Extend Beyond This Line They Are In Danger Of Defeating The Very Ends They Are Intended To Serve.

God Showers Upon Us His Gifts-more Than Enough For All; But Like Swine Scrambling For Food, We Tread Them In The Mire, And Rend Each Other.