Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.