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Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

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This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant los...more

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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere sha...more

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave t...more

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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ...more

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I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a reli...more

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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only ...more

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I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men...more