When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.