There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

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

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

Revolutions never go backwards.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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