Exigencies Create The Necessary Ability To Meet

The Reformer Is Careless Of Numbers, Disregards Popularity, And Deals Only With Ideas, Conscience, And Common Sense. He Feels, With Copernicus, That As God Waited Long For An Interpreter, So He Can Wait For His Followers.

We Live Under A Government Of Men And Morning Newspapers.

Statutes Are Mere Milestone, Telling How Far Yesterday's Thought Had Traveled; And The Talk Of The Sidewalk Today Is The Law Of The Land. With Us, Law In Nothing Unless Close Behind It Stands A Warm, Living Public Opinion.

There Is A Very Broad Theory That Society Gets The Right To Hang, As The Individual Gets The Right To Defend Himself. Suppose She Does; There Are Certain Principles Which Limit This Right. Society Has Got The Murderer Within Four Walls; He Never Can Do Any More Harm. Has Society Any Need To Take That Man's Life To Protect Itself? If Any Society Has Only The Right That The Individual Has, She Has No Right To Inflict The Penalty Of Death, Because She Can Effectually Restrain The Individual From Ever Again Committing His Offence.

Our Agitation, You Know, Helps Keep Yours Alive In The Rank And File.