“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
