Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

[Here] rests the soul of our nation-here also should be our conscience.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

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