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.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?