Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Leave women to find their sphere.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?