If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

The seed of revolution is repression.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.