If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.