“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the govenment whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.”