There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.