Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.