The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Revolutions never go backwards.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.