Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
I think the first duty of society is justice.