"And what's the use of our ever fighting about anything in America?
I always thought we could vote anything we wanted." "We can, if we're honest, and don't buy and sell one another's votes," said his father.

"And men like Lindau, who renounce the American means as hopeless, and let their love of justice hurry them into sympathy with violence--yes, they are wrong; and poor Lindau did die in a bad cause, as you say, Tom." "I think Conrad had no business there, or you, either, Basil," said his wife.
"Oh, I don't defend myself," said March.

"I was there in the cause of literary curiosity and of conjugal disobedience.

But Conrad--yes, he had some business there: it was his business to suffer there for the sins of others.

Isabel, we can't throw aside that old doctrine of the Atonement yet.