Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

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

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.