Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

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.

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.

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.