If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.