I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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