The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.

they cannot spare the protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences of disobedience to it to their property and families.

But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform?

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong;

The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war;

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority;

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.