...what we need is action - action!

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.