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

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

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.