I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.