Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

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

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

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?