I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.