The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man. - James Russell Lowell

There should be some to watch and keep alive all beautiful beliefs...

The democratic theory is that those Constitutions are likely to prove steadiest which have the broadest base, that the right to vote makes a safety - valve of every voter, and that the best way of teaching a man how to vote is to give him the chance of practice. For the question is no longer the academic one, "Is it wise to give every man the ballot?" but rather the practical one, "Is it prudent to deprive whole classes of it any longer?" It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong in their heads.

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.