I Have Only A Small

No Man Has Received From Nature The Right To Give Orders To Others. Freedom Is A Gift From Heaven, And Every Individual Of The Same Species Has The Right To Enjoy It As Soon As He Is In Enjoyment Of His Reason.

Isn't It Better To Have Men Being Ungrateful Than To Miss A Chance To Do Good?

One May Demand Of Me That I Should Seek Truth, But Not That I Should Find It

Only Passions, And Great Passions, Can Raise The Soul To Great Things. Without Them There Is No Sublimity, Either In Morals Or In Creativity. Art Returns To Infancy, And Virtue Becomes Small-minded.

But If You Will Recall The History Of Our Civil Troubles, You Will See Half The Nation Bathe Itself, Out Of Piety, In The Blood Of The Other Half, And Violate The Fundamental Feelings Of Humanity In Order To Sustain The Cause Of God: As Though It Were Necessary To Cease To Be A Man In Order To Prove Oneself Religious!