Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Revolutions never go backwards.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.