There is nothing stronger than human prejudice..

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business..

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies..

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality..

I think the first duty of society is justice..

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back..

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack..

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage..

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday..

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the peop….

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government..

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few..

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you….

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics..

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator..

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future..

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth..

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington..

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symb….

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or….