If you send men to the penitentiary for speaking their thoughts, for endeavoring to enlighten their fellows, then the penitentiary will become a place of honor, and the victim will step from it - not stained, not disgraced, but clad in robes of glory. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

If you send men to the penitentiary for speaking their thoughts, for endeavoring to enlighten their fellows, then the penitentiary will become a place of honor, and the victim will step from it - not stained, not disgraced, but clad in robes of glory.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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