I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.