Tortured for the Republic.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.