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The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
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And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. . . .
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So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
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