The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.