I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.