The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.