There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

We never found a real model (for our vision).

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.