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.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.