How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.