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.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

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.

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

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

The heart is the best logician.

One on God's side is a majority.