I Think The First Duty Of Society

Will The Slave Fight? If Any Man Asks You, Tell Him No. But If Anyone Asks You Will A Negro Fight, Tell Him Yes!

To Be As Good As Our Fathers, We Must Be Better. Imitation Is Not Discipleship. When Some One Sent A Cracked Plate To China To Have A Set Made, Every Piece In The New Set Had A Crack In It.

Society,--the Only Field Where The Sexes Have Ever Met On Terms Of Equality, The Arena Where Character Is Formed And Studied, The Cradle And The Realm Of Public Opinion, The Crucible Of Ideas, The World's University, At Once A School And A Theater, The Spur And The Crown Of Ambition, The Tribunal Which Unmasks Pretension And Stamps Real Merit, The Power That Gives Government Leave To Be, And Outruns The Lazy Church In Fixing The Moral Sense Of The Eye.

Boredom, After All, Is A Form Of Criticism.

Republics Exist Only On The Tenure Of Being Constantly Agitated.... There Is No Republican Road To Safety But In Constant Distrust.