“If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. ”

“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

“Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”