Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

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

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.

Aristocracy is always cruel.