A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

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.

Suicide is not a remedy

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

Tortured for the Republic.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.