What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.