Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

The opposite of compromise is character.