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

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.