The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.