Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.