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.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one half the nation; but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

After all, the strongest sentiment on this continent is nationality — love of country, glory in the Revolution and Declaration of Independence, reverence for Washington and the founders of our Constitution. Cut an American into a hundred pieces and boil him down, and you will find him all Fourth of July.

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

I honor Nihilism since it redeems human nature from the suspicion of being utterly vile, made up of heartless oppressors and contented slaves.

Nihilism is evidence of life...the last weapons of victims choked and manacled beyond all other resistance.

Nihilism is the righteous and honorable resistance of a people crushed under an iron rule.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.