Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. - Wendell Phillips

Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.

Truth is one forever, absolute; but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition, of the spectator.

Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.