Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.