My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

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

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.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.