Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?