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

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

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.

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