Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by read more

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If
this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the
finish by loading honors on your head.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of read more

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.