The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by. - Benjamin N. Cardozo

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.

Fulfillment may fall short of expectation. At least there has been gained a foothold from which occasion can be seized.

Of that freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.