Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

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

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.