When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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