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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

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

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.

Every government is always growing corrupt.