“A vote, like a law, is no good unless there is an arm behind it; it cannot be enforced. This is a shameful truth, perhaps, but it is true.”

Pragmatic view of the limits of suffrage without power · Editorial / public statement

• Politics
• Power
• Realism

“For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.”

On the moral responsibility of journalism to public virtue · Speech to the Boston Press Club, 1879

• Integrity
• Journalism
• Virtue

“The right of revolution is sacred. It is the right of self-defence against tyranny.”

Defending resistance to oppression as a moral and civic right · Essay or political writing (commonly attributed)

• Truth
• War