There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.