Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

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

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.