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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.