Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. - James Russell Lowell

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion, and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life. With the growth of democracy grows also the fear, if not the danger, that this atmosphere may be corrupted with poisonous exhalations from lower and more malarious levels, and the question of sanitation becomes more instant and pressing. Democracy in its best sense is merely the letting in of light and air.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut